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I don't understand what the caption means about home plate being backwards in the Wade Boggs one?

Well, this was back in the 80s when apparently -- home plate was inverted... true story - that poster actually got people thinking that the angled what-is-today back would make useful guides for creating the baselines and it's been that way ever since.

The home plate can't really be backwards in the poster, because there is no point of reference. We don't know where the pitching mound is. But it does look for far back in the box FWIW. I didn't get that comment either. But it was still funny.

There is an aircraft carrier in Lake Michigan, because this is Tom Clancy's America.

I think the author of the piece needs a copy of this book. And I think he missed the point of the Mark Carrier poster anyway, which is a joke that revolves around the nickname "Monsters of the Midway", and this...

I don't understand what the caption means about home plate being backwards in the Wade Boggs one?

What he's saying is that home plate is backwards because the back of the plate is in line with the edge of the batter's box. It's not an accurate comment because the front of home plate does not line up with the front of the batter's box either. However, since home plate is not located smack dab in the middle of the batter's boxes but well towards the front, he's not totally wrong either.

I like the one with the black Confederate soldiers, because of course they wanted the South to win so they could stay slaves. About as likely for that to happen as there being black lesbian Republicans today, but...oh, wait, never mind.

I really don't understand why the Swindell/Harnisch/Drabek poster is on a list of silly ones.

I have a Jays lunchbox that has Vernon Wells, Kelvim Escobar, Felipe Lopez, Eric Hinske, Roy Halladay and Joe Lawrence on it. For the life of me, I can't imagine why the team put Joe Lawrence on a lunchbox, but it exists to commemorate his 55 game Major League career.

Similarly, it's funny to think that someone created an over-the-top Shooting Stars of the Astros poster and put Harnisch, Swindell, and Drabek on it instead of Bagwell and Biggio. It's like creating a 1995 Atlanta Braves poster with Kent Merker, Steve Avery, and Greg McMichael.

I have a Jays lunchbox that has Vernon Wells, Kelvim Escobar, Felipe Lopez, Eric Hinske, Roy Halladay and Joe Lawrence on it. For the life of me, I can't imagine why the team put Joe Lawrence on a lunchbox, but it exists to commemorate his 55 game Major League career.

I won that Will Clark poster for doing something good in fourth grade. I thought it was pretty badass then and my memory had turned it into something a little more ferocious. Not like Will Clark with muscles ferocious, but at least like he was trying.

My 7th grade Reading teacher used to auction these posters off. You'd get points based on how many hours you read and then at the end of the month you could bid on a bunch of different prizes. I got a poster of Ryne Sandberg that was him swinging a bat and the caption on the bottom saying simply "RYNO".

I had a crazy friend who really really wanted this poster. Almost to the point of getting in trouble in his attempts to acquire it.

There is also this poster that my teacher took down for awhile because a kid in school blew his brains out with his dad's shotgun.

Sports Reference company offices have the Ray Borque Secretary of Defense, the Bash Brothers classic and a lame Alonzo Mourning one. I really regret pulling the trigger on the Mourning one. I may have to retire it to get a Malone one for basketball.

My 7th grade Reading teacher used to auction these posters off. You'd get points based on how many hours you read and then at the end of the month you could bid on a bunch of different prizes. I got a poster of Ryne Sandberg that was him swinging a bat and the caption on the bottom saying simply "RYNO".

I was about to say I think I had the same poster as a kid, but I think he's fielding in mine.

My brother got one of Kevin McReynolds striding down a dark alley with some criminals cowering from him saying "Speak softly anc carry a big stick".

These posters bring back great memories. My homemade posters with photos cut from SI and Sporting News were all based on these. My best work was of the original US Olympic basketball Dream Team, called "Dream Team: Made in Heaven."

Not just holding a gun but holding guns that Walter Payton owned and liked to shoot. A couple of years later he got in trouble because he had one of his guns inside of his restaurant and it went off. I think he ended up shooting someone as a result of it going off too.

I really don't understand why the Swindell/Harnisch/Drabek poster is on a list of silly ones.

Oh, and also, who do I need to throw this sweaty wad of cash at to own it?

Harnisch was a rising star and Swindell / Drabek were the big pitching free agent signings the Astros had for the 1993 season - it was created to capitalize the novelty that those three would form a 'Big 3' for the Astros.